Week 1, 2

N-grams and document classification.

Read Chapter 1 and Sections 4.1-4.3 of the textbook.
Take a look at 4.5 if you haven't yet
Document Classification
Reports due by class time on Monday, September 29. Please submit via HSP.

Week 3

Minimum edit distance and spelling suggestions

Read Sections 3.9-3.11.
3.9 just for interest, 3.10-11 for the new problem
Document Classification Redux
Send results by 11:59 PM Thursday, 10/2.
Spelling Recommendations
Reports will be given in class on Wednesday, October 8.

Week 4

Parsing

Read Sections 12.1-4 and 13.1-4.
The Earley Algorithm is discussed in 13.4
A Parser
No reports. Due 8:30 AM Friday, October 17.

Weeks 6, 7

Hidden Markov Models

Read Sections 5.1-5.5 and 5.7.
Read by Oct 27.
Read Sections 6.1-6.5.
Read by Oct 31.
A Part-of-Speech Tagger
Code, data, and written reports due 5:00 PM Wednesday, November 5. Reports will be given in class Friday, November 7.

Week 8

Semantics, etc.

Read Sections 18.1-3.
Read by Nov 12.
NLP Tools
Reports will be given in class Wednesday, November 12.

The end

Wordnet, feature structures, and the final exam

Read Sections 15.1-3.
Read by Nov 17.
The exam
Due by 5:00 PM Monday, November 24.